AI scores high in China’s ‘gaokao’ language tests, low in maths

BEIJING: Artificial intelligence has performed strongly on the subjects of Chinese literature and the English language, but it scored poorly in mathematics, according to a study that used different chatbot tools to generate answers to this year’s national college entrance exams, or gaokao.

Researchers from the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory had six open-source AI models, as well as GPT-4o — the latest version rolled out by leading company Open AI — take the test that most Chinese high-school students must undergo to gain admission to domestic universities.